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My father owned a penny arcade. I worked for him every summer all during my youth. My job was to hand green tickets to customers who achieved a certain score on Skee-Ball or shuffleboard. The coupons could be redeemed for merchandise which we had on display on…
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leaves, starlings and other words fall into thickets of orange or green grasses or tendrils or snakes
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When we saw the window, we were impressed. It was so clean and transparent that it reminded us of a new pair of glasses, everything so crisp and clear through it. It looked on to nothing. Actually it looked on to the refridgerators and a few stoves, though most of the…
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ghosts of the previous owners who leave a trail of whispers
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Lying on a high seat in the south study, this is what I see:
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Your father, his father, and his before that, your mother, her mother, and all the way back have kept a tradition by chance or by will to each have a baby (or several) until…
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...the relatives didn't seem nearly as fucked up as she thought they would be considering...
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“The window is a much better place to read,” she said.I wasn't aware she was talking to me, at first. In my typical manner, I was thinking about far off possibilities and realities completely detached from my own. Yet, here she was, a far off…
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Overnight Robbie had lost his youth. But since he was still only nine and his arm looked like a nine-year-old's arm, people didn't notice much at first, until he tried running. Or if he was introduced, and they went to shake his hand. He immediately lea
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soft voices singing somewhere in the black back of
rising tensions crashing with the waves...
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When people drastically change everything about themselves repeatedly, don't they eventually just end up alienating everyone?
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At last, we learn if Blow has the cojones to fight.
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He bought damaged and used sex dolls online.
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and, under foot,//
dark caves waiting/
with their unseen pigments/
adorning forgotten walls.
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Fat Patty sniffs the delicate waft of peat and sidles over, proffering a grope in exchange for a few wet-lipped swigs. Hell yes.
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“And what kind of man would prefer all these dusty old books to my physical form? Who would memorize archaic incantations, when he could be whispering in my ear? Why search for the ancient splendors of metaphor, when one could be searching for the ...
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A study found that in bat species noted for female monogamy male bats have small testes and big brains, while in species noted for female promiscuity males have testicles five times as big, but smaller brains.
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“Okay,” I say, “but my point is the only way you’d ever know if someone really loved you is if they put their life on the line when it counts. Otherwise you gotta take their word for it.”
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It is your hamsa that protects us,” the girl whispers to me.
“Then I shall give it to you,” I reply.
“No,” she says in the unselfish innocence of her youth. “It is yours and you must keep it.” I smile and kiss her dirty forehead. Eternity passes whil
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Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.
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The purple sweater brought out the blue in her eyes. Fantastic eyes made of ice, she was a stunner, and she knew it. I met her at Slabtown
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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a dim wood-paneled stair leading to the ladies’ rooms, candle-lit.
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Don’t forget, I’ve watched the evil you’ve done to the lawn for years, not to mention the chaos you’ve made of the woodshed. Don’t you remember me showing you how to properly stack the wood?
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Anatoly Gringovitch sat in the police car returning him to the Opera House.
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When he leans back from the telescope through which he had been looking, he sports a derby and a Hercule Poirot moustache.
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In the next week or two, the red oak/
will loose and lose its leaves
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